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Challenge of the Yukon: Job for Jim Lackey

Challenge of the Yukon · March 3, 1951 · 29 min · 5,360 words

The transcript of “Job for Jim Lackey”, an episode of Challenge of the Yukon first broadcast March 3, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Challenge of the Yukon free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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A challenge of the Yukon! If Yukon King swiftness and strongest lead dawn at the North West, placing the trail for Sergeant Preston of the North West Mountain Police in his relentless pursuit of lawbreakers, and King Hunyuhuski!

Gold, gold discovered in the Yukon, a stampede to the Klondike in the wild race for riches, back to the days of the Gold Rush, with Sergeant Preston and his wonder dog, Yukon King, as they meet the challenge of the Yukon.

Jim Lucky had come to the Yukon territory during the Gold Rush, and it brought his wife and ten-year-old son with him. They had staked a claim a few miles out of Selkirk on Beaver Ridge, and through the summer months Jim had been able to dig enough gold from his claim to make ends meet.

ends meet. But when Winter came, the claim seemed to give out. And Jim realized that he and his little family would soon be without food. One morning Jim paced the cabin as he talked over the situation with his wife Sally. We might as well pace it Sally. Claim isn't paying off and we're almost out of supplies. I know Jim, it seems useless to try and work the claim

anymore. The only thing I know of to do is to try to get a job in town. Well if you could, that would help see us through the winter. Then in the spring, maybe we could sell the dog team in the cabin and the claim and go back to the sea.

Go back. Yes. Oh, Jim, I didn't know what it would be like up here in the winter. Or I wouldn't have agreed to come here. The cold and all the awful snow and ice, it's almost more than I can stand.

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